Driveways in Warwick

Driveways on Warwick housing

Chase Meadow and the other estates built around Warwick since the late nineties came with block paved drives laid quickly on a thin base, and a decade or two on many of them have sunk into ruts where the car wheels sit, with weeds in every joint. The fix is not re-laying the same blocks on the same base.

It is lifting them, digging out to a proper depth, compacting a real sub-base with edge restraints, and then either re-laying the blocks or replacing them with resin bound, which is the more common choice because it is seamless and does not weed. New-build estates often have restrictive covenants and reduced permitted development, so we check the deeds and the council position before quoting a change.

The Victorian villas at Emscote, Myton and the Cape have wider frontages, often in tired tarmac or gravel that has spread onto the pavement, and the request is resin bound in a natural aggregate with a brick or setts border that suits the house. In the conservation area, Warwick District Council can take a view on removing a wall or railings, and a dropped kerb is an application to Warwickshire County Council as the highway authority.

The villages around Warwick bring long drives on larger plots where the drainage is designed across the whole area first.